A high-horizon, close-up perspectival image of a parquet wood floor.

Untitled

Artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold (American, born 1938)

Date1970

MediumAcrylic and pencil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 44 × 55 3/4 inches (111.8 × 141.6 cm)
Framed: 45 × 57 × 1 1/4 inches (114.3 × 144.8 × 3.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ronald J. Strahan in memory of A. Aladar Marberger.

Object number2001.26.1

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Copyright© The Artist, Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextDespite entering a male-dominated art world in the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold was able to forge her own path using ordinary, almost mundane motifs as her source of inspiration. From the late 1960s to70s, she began producing meticulous paintings of the wooden floors in her studio and other interior spaces. These allude to monochromatic painting, geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field or stain paintings that were the predominant movements at the time. But by placing paintings of floors on the wall, Mangold experimented with several new ideas: she called attention to the nature of painting as an object; she welcomed the viewer’s presence as a participant; and she wryly commented on the common practice by certain male Minimalist artists of the time, like Carl Andre, who installed their works on the floors of galleries and museums instead of using the walls.

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